.Katie Schwertz, Elder Manager of Optical Assemblies & Innovation at Edmund Optics, has actually been actually selected as the 2024 recipient of the SPIE President's Award. She is actually acknowledged for excellent service to SPIE as well as the optics community via job that breakthroughs optical bodies layout, interacts trainees, as well as portions the exhilaration of optics with the public.As an SPIE Senior Citizen Member, Katie is an energetic factor to the optics area, having actually offered at various events as well as authored 2 magazines along with SPIE Press, including Photonics General Rules as well as Field Guide to Optomechanical Style and also Analysis. Her engagement along with the association reaches providing on conference program committees, the Nominating as well as Leadership Advancement Board, and also as a previous SPIE Panel of Supervisors participant. Additionally, she has actually participated in the SPIE Education Committee and also the Gender Equity Task Force, which targets to improve equal opportunities as well as awareness within the optics area.For Edmund Optics, Katie has focused on several image resolution system layouts, tolerancing, studies, and also prototype evaluations in squeezed timeframes for both inner growth as well as external customers. She acquired her BS in Optics from the Educational institution of Rochester's Institute of Optics as well as her MS in Optical Sciences coming from the College of Arizona. She currently serves as a Panel participant for the Arizona Innovation Authorities as well as Co-Chair of their Optics Valley business bunch." Our team are actually very proud to find Katie Schwertz realized with the SPIE President's Honor for her dedication and also impactful payments to the optics community," claimed Marisa Edmund, Leader of the Panel as well as Chief Advertising & Marketing Officer at Edmund Optics. "Her commitment to accelerating visual units design as well as inspiring the future generation of engineers embodies the technology and management our company pursue at Edmund Optics.".